Table 2.

Comparison of baseline (at the time of ICU admission) parameters among sepsis and no-sepsis group

	Sepsis	No-sepsis	p value
Age (years)	49.1 ± 19.2	45.0 ± 18.2	0.210*
Sex (% male)	49.4%	56.9%
Platelets (lakh/µL)	2.61 ± 0.87	2.49 ± 1.13	0.49*
SOFA score	5.47 ± 2.91	4.74 ± 2.94	0.15*
TLC (103/µL)	9.91 ± 3.48	8.40 ± 3.05	0.01*
IG# (103/µL)	0.03 (0.01–0.06)	0.03 (0.01–0.08)	0.82#
IG%	0.3 (0.1–0.6)	0.3 (0.1–0.8)	0.34#
Procalcitonin (ng/mL)	0.54 (0.32–1.06)	0.67 (0.34–1.54)	0.34#
Lactate (mmol/L)	0.4 (0.3–0.7)	0.5 (0.4–1.1)	0.07#

Age, platelet count, SOFA score, total leukocyte count (TLC) in mean ± S.D, and comparison by

^*Independent t-test. IG#, IG%, procalcitonin, lactate in median (interquartile range), and comparison by

^#Mann–Whitney U-test. Sepsis group included all patients by Sepsis-3 definition. No-sepsis group includes noninfectious organ dysfunction and controls